Hat.



N0. 818,314. PATENTED APR. 1'7, 1906.

J. TAYLOR.

HAT. APPLICATION. FILED o0T.1s, 19o5.

WITNESSES INVENTOR fl Jasfpl/ fl m 6% I m/2A 114 7/ ATTORNEYS asectional view of a hat Unitarian STATES PATIENT OFFIGIFI.

JOSEPH "AYLOR, OF STOOKPORT, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HAT MAN U FACIURERSSUPPLY CO. LTD.

, OF STOOKPORT, ENGLAND.

HAT,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 1'7, 1906.

Application filed October is, 1905. Serial No. 283,279.

To all whom, it may conceiva- Be it known that I, J OSEPH TAYLOR, asubject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident ofStockport, county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Hats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is more particularly designed as an improvement on theconstruction of hats forming the subject of Wildmans patent, No.574,697, dated January 5, 1897, and in which there is provided a band ofelastic material within the hat-sweat with free ends I by means of whichthe tension of the elastic band may be varied to vary or adapt theopening within the hat-sweat for a comfortable fit on the wearers head.

,3? I have found that the, prior construction referred to is subject tothe objection that the user is liable to make the tension of the elasticband too great, with the result that on wearing the hat the part of theelastic band in front of the forehead is apt to make a mark on thewearers forehead.

My resent invention consists of means for overcoming this objection, andthis I do b so securing the elastic band, whether actually in one pieceor two pieces, to the inelastic part of the hat sweat or liningthat is,either the pad or leatherthat if there is any portion of elastic left infront of the forehead j of the wearer behind the hat-sweat that portionof such band will not be stretched by the tying up of the free ends.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is provided with my improvement.Fig. 2 is an under side view of the hat, and Fig. 3 is an'enlargedperspective view of the hat-sweat and elastic band. Fig. i is aperspective view illustrating a modification. I

In the drawings, A is the hat, which may be of straw, felt, or othersuitable material.

B represents the leather of the hat-sweat, and O represents the pad orfoundation stitched. or otherwise secured to the leather and by whichthe hat-sweat mav be secured hat sweat at points name to thisspecification in two subscriblng witnesses.

in any usual or suitable way to the hat by stitching or otherwise.

D is the elastic band, which is back of the hat-sweat and which ispreferably threaded through a folded strip of material E, secured to orforming part of the pad or foundation. This elastic band may be made ofeither one or two pieces and at the back of the hat has free ends d d,which may be tied together to give any desired tension, the free endsbeing indicated tied up by dotted lines in Fig. 1. At a point whichshould be about opposite to the temples of the wearers head I securethis band D by clamps F, Fig. 3, or other suitable means to theinelastic pad or foundation or to the leather of the hat itself, so thatin front of the forehead of the wearer there may be no stretchableelastic band that is to say, stretchable by the tightening of the freeends at (1, already described. For convenience of manufacture, however,the elastic band may extend all around the hat, and by reason of theclamps F or other suitable securingmeans the tightening up of the freeends of the band D will not stretch that portion of it which liesbetween the clamps or other securing meansthat is to say, in front ofthe wearers forehead. As an eXample of other securing means to attachthe elastic cord or band fixedly-in relation to the opposite the wearerstemple I may mention stitching, as indicated at F in Fig. 4.

I claim as my invention A hat provided with a sweat, an elastic bandbehind the sweat and having free ends toward the back of the hat, withmeans fixedly securing the elastic band to the hatsweat at points nearthe wearers temples, for the pur mse described. In testimony whereof Ihave signed my the presence of JOSEPH TAYLOR Witnesses:

PAU A. BLAIR, EDNA. U. CoLLINs.

